時尚雙語:懶人的福音 睡覺讓人更聰明
Amazing news for lazy people; sleep makes you smarter. Not studying, reading or revising, just sleeping, although the other three won’t hurt either. A joint study conducted by Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania found that shut-eye enhances your ability to recall recently learned memories, even when those memories are challenged hours later by new information.
Head researcher Dr Jeffery Ellenbogen says: “This shows us that sleep does not just passively protect memories, but rather, plays an active role in memory consolidation. Taking a stimulant to stay awake can help with alertness in the short term, but people really need sleep to retain knowledge and brain function at their best.” Scientists at Stanford University have suggested that a more supportive pillow can reduce the breathing difficulties that can interrupt your snoozing, so a clever, memory foam pillow will let you sleep soundly enough to sound clever the next day.
這是一則讓懶人驚異的消息：睡覺可以讓你更聰明。不是學習、不是閱讀和修正，而是睡覺，儘管另外的三項也沒有害處。在哈佛醫學院和賓夕法尼亞大學的一項共同研究中，發現睡覺可以提高你回想在記憶中的最近學過的東西，儘管這些記憶中的知識在數小時後會受到新知識的挑戰。Sleep on it
首席研究員傑弗瑞·艾倫伯根說：“這項研究讓我們知道睡覺不僅僅是被動的保護了記憶，而是在記憶鞏固中起着積極主動的作用。通過服用保持清醒刺激物可以讓你在短期內保持機警，但是人們確實需要睡覺來保存知識和讓你的大腦功能處在最佳狀態。”斯坦福大學的科學家曾建議，一個更加舒適的枕頭可以減少呼吸困難從而避免因此而打斷睡眠，所以一個聰明的、記憶泡沫枕頭將讓你睡得非常好，也讓你在第二天表現的更爲聰明。
